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Chicken Biryani Simple

CHICKEN BIRYANI SIMPLE

This is an easy to make chicken biryani. Especially, this recipe does'nt use coconut milk, thus avoiding more calories. I have not used mint leaves in this recipe .
I have used chicken thighs. You can use thighs or breast pieces.

Ingredients 1 :

 Chicken thighs - 4

 
Curds(Yogurt)- 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Dhania Powder - 2 tbsp
Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp
Ingredients 2 :
Onion - 1 large
Tomato - 1 large
Ginger - 1/2 inch piece sliced
Garlic - 4 pods sliced

Curry Leaves - 1 stick

 Ingredients 3 :
Cinnamon bark - 1 inch piece
Cloves - 3 nos.
Cardamom - 2 whole
Bay Leaf - 2 leaves
Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
Marathi Mokku (dried flower pods) - 1 flower



Ingredients 4 :
Basmati Rice - 1 cup
Water - 2 cups

 1. Clean the chicken thighs. You can either slit the thighs or cut them into pieces.
2. Add all the items in ingredients 1 and marinate for 1/2 hour



3. Wash the rice once and soak in 1 cup of water for 1/2 hour
4. In a skillet, heat oil and add the items in ingredients 3 and, after they spatter, add chopped onion and saute.
5. After onion is pink, add the sliced ginger and garlic, saute. Then, add chopped tomato and saute well.
6. When all these are well sauted, add the marinated chicken pieces and saute well till the chicken is white in colour.

 

7. Now, add 1/2 cup water to the chicken and pressure cook for 5 minutes.
8. In the rice cooker, add the soaked rice (soaked with 1 cup water), the cooked chicken (cooked with half cup water), this makes 1 1/2 cups water. Add another 1/2 cup of water and cook it .

 9. The Biryani is ready to eat with any raitha. Garnish with chopped cilantro.



10. For raitha, you need chopped Onion, Cucumber , g.chillies and Tomato. Mix with salt and thick yogurt.
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  1. AnonymousJuly 26, 2010 at 2:51 AM

    It looks good. Thanx for this easy to make recipe.

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  2. Vidhya VijayakumarAugust 6, 2010 at 7:36 AM

    thnx
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  3. MaxNovember 11, 2022 at 3:56 AM

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  5. PrakashDecember 7, 2022 at 12:50 PM

    Looks very simple but tasty will try for sure

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  6. Vidhya VijayakumarDecember 12, 2022 at 12:42 PM

    Thankyou Prakash!

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